At a time when communities around the world are grappling with the deep and lasting impacts of violence, polarization, collective trauma, and social fragmentation, there is growing recognition of the need to engage more deeply with questions of healing, memory, moral injury, power, and the rebuilding of human relationships across divides.

The conference, organized in partnership by the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the University of Notre Dame Jerusalem will bring together international and local scholars, practitioners, educators, psychologists, religious leaders, artists, and community leaders working across fields such as peacebuilding, trauma studies, conflict transformation, education, ethics, interfaith engagement, and community healing. 

The conference will include keynote lectures, interdisciplinary panels, workshops, and reflective spaces exploring themes such as collective trauma and moral injury, power and asymmetry, practices of healing and humanization, education and social transformation, and the possibilities and limits of dialogue and reconciliation work in deeply divided societies.